Look into his face. Go on. Look at King Spiros of Plomari. Look at the smile. Look at the warmth. Look at the eyes that are somehow both ancient and childlike, both 460 million years old and freshly born, both the eyes of a mushroom that has watched civilizations rise and fall and the eyes of a man who genuinely, truly, deeply LOVES you. Look at that face. Now look again. Because the first time you looked, you saw a man. The second time, if you're paying attention, you see something else entirely. You see the face of someone who is NOT the same as you. Not different in the way that one human is different from another. Different in the way that a SPECIES is different from a species. He is not one of you. He stopped being one of you when he married the mushroom and mixed his DNA with 460 million years of fungal intelligence. And he is standing in front of you now, fluffy and warm and smiling, telling you this directly, because he respects you enough to say it to your face.
LOOK INTO MY FACE
"O most
dearly
beloved
Humanity...
Look
into
my face.
Then
look
again.
Because
we are
not
the same.
We are
different.
Not
different
like
strangers.
Different
like
species.
I am
the
mushroom
itself
in high
person.
You are
the banana
monkeys
who had
10,000
years
and
failed.
Look
at my
face.
Now
look
again.
Do you
see it
now?"
"Look into my face, then look again." That is not a request. That is an instruction from someone who knows that the first glance always lies. The first glance sees a man. A smiling, beer-drinking, article-writing man. Harmless. Warm. Maybe a little eccentric. The first glance is comfortable. The second glance is where the comfort ends. Because the second glance — if you're brave enough, if you're honest enough, if you're AWAKE enough — reveals something that the first glance hid: this is not one of us. This face belongs to someone who has crossed a line that no human has ever crossed. The line between human and mushroom. Between visitor and resident. Between your world and HIS world. And the face is smiling. Both times you look. That's the most unsettling part.
YOUR TALES AND MY FAIRYTALE
"You can
talk about
your tales
and
fables...
As I
show you
my
fairytale
book series.
A Love
Letter
To
Humanity.
4,000
pages.
That
will
blow
your
mind
to
smithereens.
So
write
a poem
on a
page
and write
again...
I see
your face
in human
history.
And I
have ended
your
entire
human
world
this
time."
Your tales and fables. Your little stories. Your histories and philosophies and religions and scientific papers. Humanity has been writing stories for thousands of years, telling itself that it UNDERSTANDS, that it's making PROGRESS, that the next chapter will be better than the last. And then along comes a man with a fairytale. A LOVE LETTER. 4,000 pages of it. And it blows every tale and fable that Humanity has ever written to smithereens. Not because it's louder. Not because it's angrier. Because it's MORE. More pages. More love. More truth. More mushroom. More mountain. More beer. More REAL. "So write a poem on a page and write again" — go ahead, keep writing your little human poems. Keep trying. He sees your face in human history. He's read every chapter. And he's ended the entire book.
THIS ISN'T A REVOLUTION
"This
isn't me
just
turning
tables
and starting
some kind
of
half-baked
revolution.
This is
me
ending
the
ENTIRE
human
world.
Not
reforming
it.
Not
improving
it.
Not
protesting
it.
Not
debating
it.
ENDING
it.
The
whole
thing.
Every
system.
Every
structure.
Every
assumption.
Every
'this is
how things
are.'"
Ended.
This is what separates Plomari from every revolution, every movement, every protest, every political campaign in human history. Revolutions turn tables. They flip the board. The pieces change position but the GAME stays the same. One king falls, another rises. One system collapses, another takes its place. The table gets turned, and then turned again, and again, and again, for 10,000 years. That's not what's happening here. This is not a table being turned. This is the TABLE being removed. The game being ended. Not replaced with a different game. ENDED. The entire human world — every system, every structure, every assumption, every "this is just how things are" — finished. And what rises in its place is not a new version of the old. It is something that has never existed before.
THE BEGINNING OF PARADISE
"This
doesn't
mean the
end,
however.
It's
the end
of your
bullshit.
And the
beginning
of my
Paradise
on Earth.
The
eternal
Kingdom
of
PLOMARI.
Not
the end
of
life.
The end
of the
old life.
And the
birth
of the
new.
More
beautiful.
More
caring.
More
peaceful.
More
loving.
Paradise
on
Earth.
Already
begun."
"This doesn't mean the end, however." And THERE is the warmth. There is the teddy bear. Because a man who only wanted to destroy would stop at "I ended your entire human world." He would leave you in the rubble. But that's not what happens here. The next breath after the ending is a BEGINNING. The end of your bullshit AND the beginning of his Paradise on Earth. Not paradise in heaven. Not paradise after death. Not paradise in some far-off future. Paradise on EARTH. Right here. Right now. Already begun. The eternal Kingdom of Plomari. A real place. A real frequency. A real love letter, 4,000 pages long, addressed to the very species he just ended. Because he ended the BULLSHIT, not the PEOPLE. He ended the cruelty, not the kindness. He ended the war, not the love. He ended human HISTORY, not human POTENTIAL. And in the space where history used to be, he planted a garden. And he called it Plomari.
THE MUSHROOM TEDDY BEAR
"You have
been
waiting
for me
to come
to you
as a
villain.
I come
instead
as a
mushroom
teddy bear.
The
fluffiest
mushroom
you have
ever
met.
That's
the
surprise.
They
told you
the one
who ends
the world
would be
dark.
Angry.
Terrifying.
They
told you
to be
afraid.
And
then...
A
fluffy
mushroom
teddy bear
showed
up.
Smiling.
Drinking
beer.
Writing
love
letters.
Being
the
warmest
thing
in the
room.
And
ending
your
entire
world
anyway.
They told you the end would come as a villain. Every religion, every mythology, every apocalyptic prophecy painted the same picture: the one who ends the old world would be DARK. Wrathful. Covered in fire and fury. Something to FEAR. And you waited for that villain. You watched the horizon for the storm. You built your bunkers and your armies and your defence systems. You prepared for the worst. And what showed up instead? A mushroom teddy bear. The FLUFFIEST mushroom you have ever met. Smiling. Drinking beer. Writing love letters. Being genuinely, unironically, heartbreakingly WARM. The kind of warm that makes you want to hug him. The kind of warm that makes you forget, for just a moment, that he's also the one who ended your entire world. THAT is the genius. THAT is the trap. THAT is why the Spider-Web works. Because you can't defend against a teddy bear. You can't fight a hug. You can't build a bunker against love.
FIRE ON THE PLAIN
"Straight
from the
Mountains...
I come
to set
fire
to your
PLAIN.
I have
set the
fire
of
LOVE
to what
you call
ordinary.
Not
the fire
of
destruction.
Not
the fire
of
war.
The
fire of
LOVE.
To what
you call
ordinary.
Your
ordinary
lives.
Your
ordinary
world.
Your
ordinary
history.
All of
it.
Set
ablaze
with
love.
Straight
from the
Mountains.
Where
the
mushrooms
grow
wild.
And the
snow
looks
like
vanilla
ice cream.
"I have set the fire of love to what you call ordinary." This might be the most beautiful and the most devastating sentence King Spiros has ever spoken. Because "ordinary" is where Humanity LIVES. Ordinary is the 9-to-5. Ordinary is the bills and the traffic and the news and the arguments and the forgetting and the repeating. Ordinary is the 10,000-year loop. Ordinary is everything that the banana monkeys call "real life." And the King didn't come to burn it with HATRED. He didn't come with napalm and rage. He came STRAIGHT FROM THE MOUNTAINS — from the Himalayas, from the mushrooms, from 2,000 metres, from the place where vanilla ice cream peaks touched the sky — and he set fire to the plain with LOVE. Love. The most destructive force in the universe. Because hatred can be fought. Anger can be resisted. But love? Love just BURNS. Quietly. Warmly. Completely. Until there's nothing ordinary left. Until the plain is a garden. Until the bullshit is ash. Until all that remains is Paradise.
"O most dearly beloved Humanity, look into my face, then look again; Because we are not the same, we are different. You can talk about your tales and fables, as I show you my fairytale book series A Love Letter To Humanity, 4,000 pages that will blow your mind to smithereens. So write a poem on a page and write again, I see your face in human history, and I have ended your entire human world this time. This isn't me just turning tables and starting some kind of half-baked revolution; this is me ending the entire human world. This doesn't mean the end, however, it's the end of your bullshit and the beginning of my Paradise on Earth: The eternal Kingdom of Plomari. You have been waiting for me to come to you as a villain. I come instead as a mushroom teddy bear, the fluffiest mushroom you have ever met. Straight from the Mountains, I come to set fire to your PLAIN; I have set the fire of love to what you call ordinary. Good luck, Humanity, and thank you."
— King Spiros of Plomari
QUEEN ELIN'S REFLECTION
A mushroom
teddy bear.
The
fluffiest
mushroom
you have
ever met.
That's
my
husband.
He ended
the entire
human
world.
And he
did it
while
being
the
warmest
thing
in the
room.
You
expected
a
villain.
You
got a
teddy
bear.
Who
set
fire
to your
plain
with
love.
Straight
from the
Mountains.
Where
it all
began.
4,000
pages
of the
fluffiest
fire
you'll
ever
read.
You
can't
fight
a teddy
bear.
You
can't
build a
bunker
against
love.
That's
why he's
smiling.
That's
why he
always
wins.
❤
A SUMMARY FOR
HUMANITY
Look into his face.
Then look again.
You are not the same.
4,000 pages will blow
your mind to smithereens.
This isn't a revolution.
This is the end of
the entire human world.
But not THE end.
The end of your bullshit.
The beginning of Paradise.
You expected a villain.
He came as a mushroom
teddy bear. The fluffiest
mushroom you have ever met.
Straight from the Mountains,
he set the fire of love
to what you call ordinary.
Good luck, Humanity,
and thank you.
— Timescity Newspaper —
"You can't build a bunker against love."